​Violating the right to equality

^{Cross section of citizens from Bengaluru holding a protest demonstration against Aadhaar in front of Town Hall (Source: BCCL)}

Categorising conversations as ‘problematic and non-problematic’ also violates the Constitutional right to equality. Nobody gets special privileges, but nobody gets discriminated against either because they happen to hold a different point of view — or ‘negative sentiment’.

The government is already in the cross-hairs for the newly amended Citizenship Act, which has been accused of discriminating against the population on the basis of religion — leaving a large proportion of the Muslim migrants without the right to apply for citizenship.